“Fight the noble battle, trusting infinitely in me” (Inner Word).
Our Father does not exempt us from the battle that we inevitably have to fight during our earthly life. It is part of our fallen condition as human beings. While we must strive for what is good, we must also defend ourselves against enemies, both within and without, who seek to lead us away from the path of following Christ.
“Do not refuse Me this joy which I desire to enjoy with you! I will give it back to you a hundredfold and, since you will honour Me, I will honour you too, by preparing great glory for you in My kingdom!” (The Father’s Message to Mother Eugenia Ravasio).
“Since you know My favourite place of rest, are you not going to offer Me it? I am your Father and your God; will you dare refuse Me this? Oh, do not let Me suffer because of your cruelty towards a Father Who is asking you for this one grace for Himself”.
“It is through My Son and the Holy Spirit that I am coming to you and into you, and it is in you that I seek My peace” (The Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
The more we dialogue with our Father and are in living contact with Him, the more we will learn to understand Him, because God will be able to communicate to us more deeply. Let us remember that Jesus Himself told His disciples that He could not yet tell them everything because they would not be able to comprehend it. He then promised them that He would send them the Holy Spirit (cf. Jn 16:12-13). Read More
“There is a Father Who is above all fathers, Who loves you and will never cease to love you, if you so desire” (Father’s message to Sr. Eugenia Ravasio).
The love of our Heavenly Father is always there for us, but there is a condition for it to enter our hearts. This condition is our willingness and therefore our readiness to receive it and to respond to it. Read More
“There will come a time when God must be honoured and loved by men as He desires” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
Could it be that this time has already come?
If we follow the statements in the Father’s Message and at the same time look at the state of faith today, we will see that these times can only be said to be partially fulfilled. Many people still do not know our Heavenly Father as He really is and therefore cannot enter into the intimate relationship of love that He offers us. This, in turn, has consequences for all mankind, for then the light of God’s love cannot spread in its fullness and permeate the lives of men. Read More
“They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes” (Rev 7:16-17).
All earthly tribulation has come to an end for those who have borne witness to our Father and to the Lamb and have remained faithful to Him until death. They will receive the great consolation of the Holy Spirit, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
“Then I saw another angel ascend from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, saying, ‘Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God upon their foreheads’” (Rev 7:2-3).
If we live in a state of grace, we can confidently await the return of our Lord and, in the midst of great turbulence, escape the “wrath of God”.
Just as our heavenly Father saved Noah from the great flood and led him safely into the ark, so He preserved His chosen people from the deadly plague that struck the Egyptians, so that, seeing their gates sealed with the blood of the Lamb, “the Destroyer of the first-born might not touch them” (Heb 11:28); just as He saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptian Pharaoh and led them through the wilderness, so the Father will protect His own in the “hour of trial” (Rev 3:10).
The “seal of the living God” is placed on our foreheads if remain faithful to our faith, if we receive and live all that our Father has done for our salvation. We have been washed in the blood of the Lamb, as St John describes the multitude he saw “clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands”: “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” (Rev 7:14).
Thus our Father has prepared for us a place of safety, and has set a seal upon us, so that no power can snatch us out of His hand. Nothing can separate us from the love of God (Rom 8:38-39).
We can live in this certainty, attentive and vigilant, trying to show all people the Ark of Salvation in the Heart of our Heavenly Father, especially when the plagues fall upon humanity. All men can enter this ark, be washed in the blood of the Lamb and receive on their foreheads the “seal of the living God” to pass through the Great Tribulation dressed in white robes.
“The kings of the earth and the great men and the generals and the rich and the strong, and every one, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand before it?’” (Rev 6:15-17) Read More
“The Lamb went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne” (Rev 5:7).
Prior to this scene, the seer of Revelation had ascertained that no one in heaven or on earth was worthy to open the book in the right hand of Him who was seated on the throne, or to break its seals (v. 3).
